I recently bought the Voyo Vbook 3 (CherryTrail Edition) which employs the same
touchpad.
I have emailed Voyo but didn't receive an answer yet. But judging from some
screenshots I found the touchpad might very well be a Synaptics device.
As I am not an experienced developer, especially in regard to the Linux
Kernel, I didn't try to assign the synaptics driver. Instead I went for
hid-generic which offers basic functionality.
The problem is, that this device gets matched by hid-multitouch. An easy kernel
patch is to add the line
#define USB_VENDOR_ID_RIPOFF 0x1018
to drivers/hid/hid-ids.h in the kernel source and then modify
drivers/hid/hid-core.c to contain
case USB_VENDOR_ID_RIPOFF:
hid->group = HID_GROUP_GENERIC;
break;
within the function hid_scan_report under vendor specific handlings.
I didn't have the time to recompile the whole kernel (4.13.0, Ubuntu
17.10), so I compiled and installed everything in "drivers/hid" as
external modules. After reloading the hid module, the touchpad works.
Curiously, it wouldn't work directly after start up even though the right .ko
file had been loaded (as reported by modinfo), so i put the lines
hid
usbhid
hid-generic
in \etc\initramfs-tools\modules and did an "update-initramfs -u"
Now it works on the login screen.
I hope someone with more experience can propose an appropriate kernel patch or
something?
In the meantime I plan to soonish publish a more extensive description of my
little hack and more tricks to also get other hardware of the voyo (such as
wifi) working.
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